skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tradeoff with conventional light bulbs is efficiency vs. lifetime. This is not the usual planned obsolescence it is made out to be, you are actually getting more efficient bulbs that way.
I'm honestly surprised at the relatively positive reception to this. While there isn't any problem with the code shown, the same effect couldn've probably been achieved with a few well thought out shortcuts in any IDE (delete outerHTML of svg tag, add new tag, add attributes). The only "more complex" output that is shown is the specification that CW produces, which literally contains an error in the first line ("Sp<logo>ral").

Moving on to the complex task, the author simply hand-waves "this isn't good yet but surely it will be". No evidence is given as to _why_ there should be any expectation of LLMs getting there.

And the perceived benefit of discovering that their idea of the more complex task was not thought out enough did not come from the LLM, it came from the author itself. They may as well have spoken to ELIZA or a rubber duck.

What am I missing?
obs studio is kind of overkill but works well. You can even record several windows individually and have a different layout than what you actually have on screen.
> many wouldn't even be able to survive in the wild, whether you think that justifies our actions is up to you

I wouldn’t be able to survive in the wild.

Some dog breeding is nonsense. But for the most part, we adapted to each other. If you look at the most efficient land predators, it’s humans, cats and dogs. (Dogs are also the only fellow persistence hunting mammals and, apart from some lizards, the only animals to practice it period [1].)

Our domestication of herbivores is exploitative. Our domestication of dogs and acceptance of cats is far closer to an alliance.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting
Reducing the Size of Cash App for iOS
No, it can still be more cynical.
"Freedom of the press" and "Freedom of speech" is just as enshrined in the first amendment as "Freedom of religion". Yet none of the backwards hicks pushing for the abolition of our basic rights wants to eliminate THAT protection.
It'd be hilarious if phones hadn't largely replaced desktops/laptops for most people. I feel bad for all the kids who grew up/will grow up with nothing but a device primarily designed for media consumption and the collection of their private data for a computer.
I wish I could downvote this post. The examples are bad (react and electron were 100% user driven hits) and the author is frankly kind of toxic.
because they don't want anyone observing the testing
> The IOC in 1986 let the individual sports federations make a ruling on whether pros were allowed.

And then you have NBA players on the Olympic team:

* https://www.nbcolympics.com/news/lebron-curry-durant-embiid-...

See also NHL/MLB players.
Not really sure how much further there is to go.

We've already got LED bulbs, heat pumps, and energy-efficient appliances.

Washers and dryers still have to spin and agitate. Dishwashers still have to shoot jets of water. Ceiling fans still need to move air.

And with the switch to electrification (cars, stoves, dryers, hot water heaters) electricity usage will increase, fortunately, to replace polluting gasoline.

So I think future technological progress really is going to come down to increased battery capacity, not decreasing energy usage.

Ultimately, the simple fact is that solar power isn't generated at night.
Perhaps it is just wishful thinking, but at the speed its getting better I feel like next year it will suprass Unity overall.

Godot is awesome. Thank you John Riccitiello!
That hypothetical Flashlight app, that uses location permission, would have never been approved in the first place.

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...?
I can't think of many things where a 10x improvement in its strongest important metric wouldn't be useful? I imagine dumping a lot of current into something very quickly and recovering it 50k times would be pretty useful in bursty workloads-- industrial processes, solar-powered gates and lifts, alarms, ignition systems, etc. And that's just gravy considering the real selling point is being made from commodity materials. Even if they're too heavy or something for electric cars, it would be great if it was a viable replacement for lead-acid car batteries.
> Really though, the right solution is time plus confidence. Instead of "4 days" it should be "1-8 days" or whatever.

It's a half-assed reimplementation of PERT charts, which were invented in the 1950s and used successfully for many decades, until everyone decided that everything old is terrible.
In my opinion these are absolutely not prerequisites.

I built many things at my desk or the kitchen table in our flat with very simple tools. Even a single Swiss Army knife can be used to achieve a lot. And you don't need a lot of time to make small things.

It can be easy to be jealous of the DIY YouTubers with massive workshops (I'm jealous!), but I find it more satisfying to take inspiration from the kinds of simple things people make/made in simpler societies/civilisations.
iOS absolutely does not use Private Relay (iCloud branded VPN) by default. Even when it is included in a subscription, you must explicitly opt in.
A lot of Gemini clients will inline the images, such as Lagrange. Not an issue as you would have with Gopher.
I know it's pointless pedantry and there's no reason to argue it, but aren't prototypes inherently "half-done"? If something was "fully done" it wouldn't really be a prototype anymore, but more of a gen 1.
Having worked in computing around medical facilities and providers, unfortunately, I believe this is just a pipe dream.

Companies that charge a lot for the software will buy up the smaller companies providing services until only a few are left. They'll bundle it up with an expensive price tag. Even more so, providers tend to have protection when they buy a piece of software used by a large number of other providers. They get to bandy about saying "industry standard". I promise you, you do not want to be in front of a medical malpractice jury saying "well we slapped these parts together that we downloaded online", it won't go well for you, even if that's what the big software service did just the same.
Much needed feature for typography! The biggest pain is when I need to visually vertically center a text with an icon. If you have an [ICON] followed by upper case character (e.g. Hello), the (H) will always visually look too high to be vertically centered with the [ICON] because the actual height of the text that is calculated always account for hanging characters like "g, y", etc.
I have a ZSA Moonlander but it makes me want to make a Dactyl Manuform of some of the larger sizes just for those extra keys.

https://wylderbuilds.com/all-sizes
This works only if everybody negotiates in good faith which isn't the case in the US system. Insurances deny legitimate claims, hospitals inflate prices as much as they can. You don't need AI to fix this. You just need more transparency and stable pricing. Hospitals need to stop making up cost but have stable pricing and insurances need to publish what they support and what they don't support.

Obviously this won't happen because there is way too much money to be made with the current state. If anything they will use AI to squeeze even more money from the patients. And employer based health insurance will keep patients captive.
Oh never noticed this one, I probably would try to mimic this in a simpler environment over the weekend, maybe a ball rolling over the street or spaceship flying over earth !
I just finance directly with Apple. They offer the iPhone 15 Pro for $1000 or 24 monthly payments of $42. With 7% inflation you'd actually save ~$150 doing the monthly payments.
I normally just auto-apply `black` to my code, but occasionally I feel the need to have things arranged in a way that is easier to read -- e.g. a list of several dictionaries. In that case, I just put a comment telling it to stop reformatting at the start of the block, and another at the end.
> the idea of a protocol that is styled by the user agent

You mean a markup language styled by the user agent? And it could be served by a stateless request protocol, so all requests are equivalent? We could call them JCML and JCTP, I guess...
> If people actually care about slim, light phones... why has almost every company stopped making them?

It’s not the sole factor. But ceteris paribus, most consumer prefer a thinner, lighter phone.
As I understand, aerobic-only training increases your anaerobic threshold (you can do more without going anaerobic) while anaerobic training improves your anaerobic tolerance (you can continue to function with more lactic acid buildup)
My email is in my profile page. And if you have truly found that the institution is sharing protected health information (e.g., even just names and date of birth) with third parties who have not signed BAAs, that is a lawsuit worth tens of millions plus government fines of $50,000 per piece of compromised data per patient. I highly suspect that there's some misunderstanding or miscommunication here.
As much as I want to support those kinds of devices they're all insanely priced and have earned a reputation for failing at the most basic tasks. Maybe after it's been more than 3-5 years since the last forum post titled "can make/receive calls" I'll give pine phones another look.
Vonnegut's quip about it being uneconomical to save ourselves was frighteningly prescient.
(co-founder)

Thanks for the comment and very valid points. When we initially started building we had subscription plans and more of a general revenue model. Over time we transitioned to the donation-based approach. We are open to revisiting the former if there is interest (and feedback) in the existing functionality or newer updates. I definitely understand the concern of "free forever" and open to input.
Using banking apps on a phone is dangerous because if your phone gets hacked (and Linux kernel has extremely large attack surface), the attacker gets access to both the app's session and SMS codes that are used to confirm operations. People who use banking apps must be crazy or don't care about their money.
The challenges videos from The Coding Train are super entertaining to watch. It all feels like a joke, having Daniel Shiffman performing all sorts of hilarius acts and explanations. By the end of a video you have not only laughed all along but most importantly you have learnt something interesting in a simple and entertaining way. I would love to purchase the CHOO-CHOO flute that Mr. Shiffman sounds from time to time (if engraved with the coding train logo, better) but unfortunately is not available for purchase in their online store.
I find their gimmick of "buy a physical gift card from Amazon, scratch to reveal one-time code" to be pretty genius. It's just a bulk pile of cards, Amazon records you bought one but doesn't know which one (and the actual code is under a scratch-to-reveal surface).

Even if a three-letter agency intercepted your package and swapped your gift card with a known code, I believe Mullvad is not recording the connection between specific gift code and the account number.

You can also exchange unscratched gift cards with friends and strangers.
that's a *deliberate choice.
Block connections without VPN is turning out to be as reliable as my self-control at an all-you-can-eat buffet…if I'm not mistaken, these DNS leaks can very much expose where you browse and even your location, which kinda defeats the whole purpose of a VPN (and yes, even with VPNs, Android might still leak your DNS info. If you're really privacy-conscious, you might need to look beyond just using Android or keep your sensitive stuff off your phone)
Follow up: social engineering to destroy nomadic culture whos Statussymbol goats degreened the landscape in the first place and deregulated created vast conflicts like Syria..
HyImpulse launches SR-75 rocket powered by Paraffin [video]
Out of interest, do you call other humans "creatures" ?

I find out use of wording interesting, and it helps justify putting them in cages and doing experiments on them.
Just look at how out of date NewPipe is in F-Droid, it's maintainer just isn't motivated to get new versions of the app building on F-Droid's servers, leaving end users with a half year out of date client that is unreliable to use.
That has what to do with WW2, exactly?
I don't know what point you are trying to make with your snark, but bilateral treaties are much easier to alter or cancel if one party so desires, and public opinion in Switzerland is that they were definitely the right choice and the way to go forward. They are actively being negotiated.
you're correct there about the southpaws. I wish they would break in! I have two SP111's and they are truly my endgame boards. Had them for years and haven't once had a desire to go look for anything different. Truly perfect for exactly what I want. I feel like a lot of other people as well would love it, if only they could try it. But .... this was a VERY expensive board, and was only available in a limited time group buy. I have no idea if it's even available for purchase right now.
Ask HN: Nineteen Year Old Needing Advice
Hi, I’m a 19 year old from Western Europe looking for advice. I am currently studying CS in a T200 American University and I’m miserable. I came to America as I have a dream about starting a company here. I’ve started successful side projects in hs and currently make around $5k per year from them. I wanted to go straight into the industry after high school, but my parents advised me to go to college. However, I don’t like it here, and I’m asking for your advice on what I should do.

The issues I have with my situation

- My school is in a small town, and has a very small mentality. I have not met a single person who knows what they want to do with their life. I feel as if most of these people will end up working average 9-5 jobs. Even the “entrepreneur” clubs at the school do not have ambitious people.

- I have met insane people. I’ve had to cut out many “friends” as they tried taking advantage of me, didn’t respect me, or projected their insecurities onto me. Right now I have zero friends.

- The society is extremely unhealthy. Half the people here are on antidepressants or hung over every other day, and a fraction of the school eats healthy.

I’m a confident person who carries themselves well, but I hate interacting with people here. I feel like I can’t connect with anyone, and I get treated horrible by insecure men (I’m skinny and tall). I’ll be washing my hands men will treat me as if I killed their entire family. It’s even worse while I’m walking around or in the gym.

I am someone who likes to eat well and be active. I have not met someone like myself here.

Here is what I'm currently doing:
- I Sleep 9h/day

- Cook 100% of my meals with plenty of vegetables and zero processed food

- Work out every other day

- Run every day

- Walk 20k steps/day

- Continue working on my side projects/maintain 4.0 gpa

I've also joined clubs, but have met immature and fake people.

I feel as if my spark and passion for programming is dying here. I haven't met anyone else who is ambitious, and I constantly have to go against the "traditional way" with everything I do.

I have thought about transferring universities. However, the courses which I’m taking don’t line up with the UC/Cal State transfer requirements. It’s also not in my best interest to go to a community college in California, due to cost and housing. I don’t think I can get accepted into Stanford either.

So, I am looking for your advice.

Should I drop out and pursue a job in sf? I have plenty of personal projects which make money and have users. I am also social, and have US citizenship. I feel as if I would be able to get a job with my current skills.

Should I go back home to Western Europe, take a gap year, and apply for colleges there?

Should I stay here? It’s insanely bad for my mental health, but I will get the degree.

Maybe something else? I have thought about applying for the theil fellowship or other programs for young adults but this isn’t something which I would consider viable.

I am interested in your advice. Thank you.
As private equity dominates wheelchair market, users wait months for repairs
> My perfect keyboard would be something like a 150% with standard full layout but then adding in a bunch of programmable macro keys, I want more than F12! I want F1 through F36.

Not 36 but I've got one of these IBM Model M clickety clik keyboard with 24 function keys:

https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/9i1aef/24_functio...

But that said: I switched to a 60% HHKB more than a decade ago and I don't regret it. I prefer to use modifiers and less keys than more keys and longer hands / fingers travel.

Maybe you'd like this Wey Tech MK06:

https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?t=15102
This has been said about most absurdly expensive therapies that are now cheap: monoclonal antibodies, gene therapy, stem cell therapy, robotic surgery, proton beam therapy. The evidence is not on your side.
Obsidian runs on local Markdown files so there are many free options you can use for syncing and publishing notes.
Nit Pick feedback: it should read: “the right _number_ of features”, not “_amount_ of features”. Other than that, love the look of the site :)
What?! You mean 3d printing is not always the right answer?

Shocking!
I’ve been using icloud to store my vault and have found it to be great to sync with laptop, phone, and tablet (obviously they’re Apple devices as iCloud isn’t supported on anything else).

It’s been really solid. When I used an android phone I had a lot more difficulty. While syncthing is reliable on android and macbook, iphone and ipad don’t work nearly as well.
I'm sure everyone will have their own, but some examples off the top of my head:

* In the video about EVs not illuminating the brake light when regen braking, he confidently assumes that the problem is with all EVs, not just the particular brand of EV he drives.

* Not knowing that inverter microwaves exist, and confidently asserting that you can hear every microwave cycle on and off.

* (Over a series of videos) Letting his hatred for Tesla color his videos about EV charging.

For the last bullet: He went on and on about how every other brand uses CSS (with no acknowledgement that more than half of EVs in the US were, and still are to this day, made by Tesla). He ranted that CCS was obviously superior, argued that Tesla was trying to lock in their customers (despite EVgo and a couple others already offering Tesla plugs).

After the industry switched to the "inferior non standard", he started parroting the lines "well Tesla is just CCS anyway" and this is "Good For Bitcoin^H^H^H EVs".

It's too bad because there was actually a lot of good info in his EV charging videos. They're just so heavily slanted that I can't recommend them to anyone.
From the article it claims charge speed 10x that of lithium and 50,000 cycle lifetime. I don’t know about you but a EV that can go 150 miles and charge to 80% again in 2min would be super compelling to me.

Solid commuter car but not too annoying on the rare roadtrip.

But, I am guessing grid frequency regulation use cases are going to make these too expensive for a car for a long time.
Nice quote, but I'm not sure how it relates to my comment.
Grading Poetry with ChatGPT
> If violent extremists have no choice about how they act, then you should accept that society too has no choice but to reject them.

Of course, but wouldn't it be nice to have a comprehensive answer to "why?" so we can be free of them completely? Or at least find out why it's impossible if it really is.

The choice should be creating environment in which they don't spawn.
Liquid metal energy storage systems with 100 times better heat transfer
What a coincidence! I just was looking up a comic I used to read - Bizarro - and recalled that years ago I used an RSS reader to keep up with all sorts of comics, etc. and just fell out of the habit. And then I found that Bizarro has no RSS feed.

Thanks for doing one small thing to keep a great tool alive.
So called “accelerate-go” versus “accelerate-stop”. It is conditional, and not limited to these two models. They need to accelerate to a specific airspeed based on loading, temperature, and usable runway length. Prior to that airspeed, engine failure means abort. At and after reaching that speed, takeoff continues.
Most phone users are oblivious to what root even is and yet still hate it when changes are pushed to their devices without notice, with no ability to revert to how things were or prevent unwanted changes in the future. This isn't acceptance but rather learned helplessness.
Flash of Unstyled Content
It does and it doesn't.

There are mountains and mountains of evidence documenting the harms that drinking at young ages (and in general) introduces.

"Evidence" suggesting that porn gives men "delusional thinking" about women is dubious at best. Evidence documenting that men's delusions about women are primarily fomented by viewing porn under 18 is even more scant.
I wonder if there is a name for garden-path sentences which emerge from mis-reading or typos; or, more interestingly perhaps, a name for a garden path candidate sentence—which is being optimistically projected during reading—forcing a misreading.

An interesting sort of confirmation bias, which it is easy to interpret as "pressure from more abstract model layers, informing the word recognition layer"...
> thus should not be getting a dividend allocation (i.e. a non-zero allocation to an option holder is a disproportionate allocation)

This is ignoring the fact that existing shareholders benefited by not having to pay the employees more cash in lieu of the options/RSU. For example, existing shareholders could have benefited from higher dividends due to higher cash flow, or greater appreciation in stock price due to bigger stock buybacks due to higher cash flow.

The two effects should cancel each other out.
I think the oft missed bit about zone 2 is that the goal is to increase volume. If you simply reduce intensity without increasing volume, you'll get worse, not better.

If you only run 30 minutes once a week, you won't see as many gains if you do it in zone 2 than zone 3/4. But you also can't run 10h/w zone 4/5, so that's where the zone 2 comes into play. It allows to increase volume without increasing fatigue/risk of injury too much.
This falls in line with a plug in hybrid being an excellent alternative to evs for most people. 30-50 miles of driving around town for work an errands, with an ICE for the occasional longer trip. Almost all driving will be electric without the charge anxiety.
I only got to use the Workspaces feature for an hour before they fixed the waitlist access check but IMO the real value is that it provides a familiar PR-style interface for the whole process that enables fast iterations.

TFA didn't show a screenshot of it but the per file plans and the diffs are side by side on a single screen so you can update the per file plan (adding and removing files as needed) and then "re-roll" the code changes as you go. With the Codespaces feature you can even launch the project and get access to a terminal to run stuff and presumably feed the output back into the plan.

It makes it really easy to spot deficiencies in the code, add comments in the plan, and instantly regenerate the code (well, not instantly, there was a queue when I used it). It was a lot smoother than my experience with Copilot Chat, Aider, and Plandex.
Yes, exactly. Here is a list of approved hardware tokens: https://www.a-trust.at/de/fido/
Physicists claims Gravity solves cosmology's vacuum catastrophe
I think in the Javascript version you have to check for null as well.
Sounds interesting, but the github repo doesn't seem to have enough README content to explain who should use the project or how to use the project.
I still use an XS (from 2018) and it has no issues running everything.
Isn’t that already a thing? Or do you mean that HN should add tags for posts about languages?